While
these manuscripts were written long ago, I ask that you first
read the following excerpt from Josiah's writings, and then
understand and respect why these writings are copyrighted, not to be used in any
publication without prior permission or to be used in any
commercial application:
Here then Closes these
Memmoirs - Biography or whatever They may be called - These I
leave behind, will now have to Take them up, if they Think
them of Intrest or Value Sufficient to Continue them on, and
so Transmit them to the Farther Generations.
In writing these Memmoirs, I
have bee actuated Soley by the disire of letting my Children
Know Who and What thier Progenitors were, and where they came
from As far back as could be Traced, How they Lived, How They
prosperd or Sufferd and the reason of it & c This I Think
they will be able to do by these Writings - - - - -
I am fully aware of my
Limitations. And realize the Errors and Mistake, in Gramer,
Spelling, Punctuation and c & c. (I am an Uneducated Man)
These They will have to correct themselves.
I have herin told - Only the
Truth, nothing is here said but what I have Partiscipated in,
or Wittnessed, in Mentioning Persons - I admit I have Been
Harsh, and to those not aware of the Facts, it will No doubt
seem Unescessarly So, but it is the Solemn Truth, Every Word
written - , and the Persons or People so Refered To - They
and thier Actions and Work were in a large Measure the cause
of my Failure in Life. I am aware That I am to blame for
being so Weak - and so Trusting and willingly bear the Fruits
of it - but to write a true Account of my Life, I had or
wanted to show all the Reasons - the Cause - the why and the
Wherefor, of A Life - that Might and Should have been a
Success But turned out to be a Miserable Failure, if I have
Been Harsh and seemingly Unjust with others - I have not
Spared myself - as these Papers will Testify - if I have
Blamed I have been willing to Share the Blame, but Censured
only where Censure was due, So I leave it To be Judged By
those Reading it - And I can only Hope they Will take A
Lesson from and Proftit by it for thier Good in this World
and the World to Come.
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These Lines are Written to
be seen By Our Children or those of our imediate Family, Not
to be seen Or Read or Heard Read by even my Brothers or
Sister or any of Thiers it is Strictly A Family Paper and I
ask them to Respect it as Such !
Josiah
Conzett 1905
Josiah's book, presented
exactly as it was originally
written by his own hand, is broken up here into
four sections for easier reading on the web:
Pages 1 -24 of Recollections
Pages 25 - 40 of
Recollections
Pages 41 - 57 of Recollections
Pages 58 - 74 of Recollections
Note: These page numbers
relate to the page numbers on the corrected version below,
and do not appear on the pages of the original version.
Josiah's book, in corrected form, is
also available online.
It is much easier to read, is ,
but still retains all the
facts and flavor of the original manuscript:
Pages 1-40 of Corrected Recollections
Pages 41-74 of Corrected Recollections
Index of people, places and
names
from pages 1-74
You may
download a copy of the original book in MS-DOS text
format: recollec.zip 66k.
If you have
any questions or comments, please e-mail me at
larry@conzett.org. Thank you.